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Determining neutrino mass ordering with ICAL, JUNO and T2HK

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In this paper, we study the synergy among the future accelerator (T2HK), future atmospheric (ICAL) and future reactor (JUNO) neutrino experiments to determine the neutrino mass ordering. T2HK can measure the mass ordering only for favorable values of \(\delta _{\textrm{CP}}\), whereas the mass ordering sensitivity of JUNO is dependent on the energy resolution. Our results show that with a combination of T2HK, ICAL and JUNO one can have a mass ordering sensitivity of 7.2 \(\sigma \) even for the unfavorable value of \(\delta _{\textrm{CP}} = 0^\circ \) for T2HK and most conservative value of JUNO energy resolution of 5\(\%/\sqrt{E(\text {MeV})}\). The synergy mainly comes because different oscillation channels prefer different values of \(|\Delta m_{31}^2|\) in the fit when the mass-ordering \(\chi ^2\) is minimized. In this context, we also study: (i) effect of varying energy resolution of JUNO, (ii) the effect of longer run-time of ICAL, (iii) effect of different true values of \(\theta _{23}\) and (iv) effect of octant degeneracy in the determination of neutrino mass ordering.

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Acknowledgements

This work is performed by the members of the INO-ICAL collaboration. We thank to the members of the INO-ICAL collaboration for their valuable comments and constructive inputs. We thank A. Dighe, S. Goswami for useful discussion and valuable comments during the INO analysis meetings. The authors also sincerely thank the ICAL internal referees, Amol Dighe and D. Indumathi for their careful reading of the manuscript and for providing useful suggestions. Authors extend sincere thanks to Suprabh Prakash for providing the .glb file for JUNO and for useful discussions regarding the JUNO experiment. The HRI cluster computing facility (http://cluster.hri.res.in) is gratefully acknowledged. MG acknowledges Ramanujan Fellowship of SERB, Govt. of India, through grant no: RJF/2020/000082. This project has received funding/support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska–Curie grant agreement No 860881-HIDDeN.

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  1. Harish-Chandra Research Institute, A CI of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhunsi, Prayagraj, 211019, India

    Deepak Raikwal

  2. Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, 400094, India

    Deepak Raikwal

  3. Department of Physics, School of Engineering Sciences, University Center, Roslagstullsbacken 21, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sandhya Choubey

  4. The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova University Center, Roslagstullsbacken 21, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sandhya Choubey

  5. School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, India

    Monojit Ghosh

  6. Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and Sensing Devices, Ruder Bošković Institute, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

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Raikwal, D., Choubey, S. & Ghosh, M. Determining neutrino mass ordering with ICAL, JUNO and T2HK. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 110 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03697-9

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